Tag Archives: pierre bourdieu

secretaries of state

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

taking stock: dividend under the big tent

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

Art and money. It’s a toxic mix. Money values dominate art values and art has to be submissive to doctrine and ideology. Its called playing the game. Patronage has strings attached so that the art itself is a form of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred barr, Andre Breton, Charles Saatchi, Georges Seurat, Guy Debord, Hans Haacke, john a. walker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, pierre bourdieu, rita hatton, Saatchi Collection | Leave a comment

when the saints come marching in

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Friends of poverty. Suffering as a gift of god? The context for Hitchens attack on Mother Teresa was certainly sensational, down the sexual innuendo of the title Missionary Position. But, the broader context of Mother Teresa and the role charity … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Andrew Potter, arthur c. brooks, charles keating, Christopher Hitchens, Jean Baudrillard, jerry sandusky, joseph heath, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Malcolm Muggeridge, martin drolling, pierre bourdieu, Thorstein Veblen, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

trench warfare

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

The fact that an item is potentially useful has no relation whatsoever that it will actually be put to good use. In fact, poor use, may actually infer a greater value, an honorific value on the owner. Burberry has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander McQueen, angela ahrendts, burberry bespoke, christopher bailey, consumer behavior, emma watson burberry, forrester research, Humphrey Bogart, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, marshall cohen NPD Group, paul sonne WSJ, pierre bourdieu, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexandre Trauner, Arielle Dombasle, Carla Bruni, devin friedman, diane deriaz, dombasle crazy horse, henry samuel telegraph, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean Paul Sartre, jerome garcin, jessica reed, jessica reed guardian, Lawrence Durrell, louis du funes, Luc Besson, Michael Kimmelman, Michel Carné, pierre bourdieu, Sarkozy, yann moix | Leave a comment

merry pranksters: Joke on who?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

hustling those creepy patriarchal fantasies

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Dave

The packaging of male ego and sexual conquest.How its peddled , this male libido as sublimated women hatred is often a matter of status. Whether its through the latest Stieg Larrson, or Hustler magazine, the ingenuity or lack of subtlety … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, Bell Hooks, Charles Baudelaire, Christian Schad, dario saftich, david eisenbach, David Fincher, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Jonathan Kay national Post, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Glenn, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, laurie penney, Otto Dix, pierre bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, stieg larsson, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tom Peters, Werner Fassbinder, William Burroughs | 1 Comment

tee it up: triple bogey on consumption

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dave

Throughout history, people have often been idle, and they have always had holidays. Even in the darkest periods of the Dark Ages, the rich hunted, jousted, sang, danced and made love. The peasants gorged, got drunk and cavorted. Yet, true … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged baggar vance, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, charles lees, che guevara, david allen painting, Dean Martin, earl Woods, F.Scott Fitgerald, Fidel Castro, j.f. abbott, joseph heath, pierre bourdieu, Robert Redford, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, Tiger Woods, william inglis | Leave a comment

culture jamming lineup at the cash

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dave

Is culture jamming a trademark? A commodity that is more in the domain of an Adbusters and Naomi Klein and Michael Moore and perhaps even Noam Chomsky as popular tastemakers? I doubt Naomi Klein is going to be seen in … Continue reading →